Louis Stevens

inventor

Born:15 April 1925

Best Known as:co-inventor of a magnetic disk storage device

Louis Stevens, along with William Goddard and John Lynott and a team
of engineers, invented a magnetic disk storage drive for computers that
allows users to store and access large amounts of data almost instantly.
Components of the disk drive are still used in modern computers. Born in
Post, Texas, Stevens studied electrical engineering at Texas Tech and the
University of California at Berkeley. After earning his BSEE and MSEE, he
went on to work for IBM where he created the disk drive of the modern
computer.

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